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:: Monday, March 14, 2005 ::
VICTIM IDENTIFIED BCTV KOOTENAYS NEWS
Mar 11 - -Officials have identified a worker who died at Teck Cominco's lead-zinc smelter in Trail while doing maintenance work on a boiler.
Dead is 41-year-old Neil Fraser, a Regina-based employee of Eveready Industrial Services.
A boiler project where the contract worker died on Tuesday remains shut down.
The company is still awaiting autopsy results...(BN)
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Fatality at Teck Cominco Trail Operations
TMTV/BCTV Kootenays Tuesday Mar 8.
TRAIL, BC, March 8 /CNW/ - Teck Cominco, Trail Operations regrets to announce that a worker employed by a contractor collapsed on site, was rushed to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 6:34 am. The identity of the worker has not been released pending notification of next of kin. The cause of the fatality is not known at this time. Teck Cominco immediately notified the WCB, RCMP and the coroner and is cooperating fully in the investigation of the matter. The company stopped maintenance work immediately as a precautionary measure.
Arrangements have been made for the services of counselors for the work crews and the Emergency Response Team. On behalf of Teck Cominco, Mike Agg, General Manager of Trail Operations, expresses deepest sympathies to the worker's family and loved ones.------------------------------------------- posted 11:45 AM :: reference link ::
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